Excerpt: Transgender patients face the greatest barrier to care with some healthcare providers refusing to treat them. According to the HEI report, some providers are insensitive to their physical and mental health needs and as a result, transgender patients will neglect healthcare all together.

What a time to get writer’s block! After weeks of struggling to decide whether I should expose my very weaknesses for the world to read, to pour out the contents of my life transgender before a new audience, this decision does not come effortlessly. In fact, I wasn’t even able to train my mind’s eye on this.